The BC Poverty Reduction Coalition’s “Blueprint for Justice” released in 2020 describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified existing inequities and revealed the depth and breadth of the durable policy and investments needed to truly reduce poverty and inequality in B.C. It describes the concrete actions needed to ensure nobody is left behind during the pandemic and beyond it, centering its recommendations on four principles: economic security, universal basic services, equity and climate justice. The full blueprint can be found here.
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Economic security
Extreme poverty and homelessness
Recommendation 71: Prioritize poverty reduction strategies that target those who have a higher risk of living in poverty due to intersectional disadvantage. This includes women, single senior women, single parents, Indigenous and racialized communities, immigrants and refugees, those engaged in survival sex work and other work in grey economies, LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, those living with disabilities (taking into consideration the diverse needs of those with both short and long-term disability needs), those with mental health challenges, and those with substance-use disorders.-
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Economic security
Extreme poverty and homelessness
Recommendation 72: Continue the $300 increase to income and disability assistance rates and further raise the rates to the Market Basket Measure.-
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Economic security
Extreme poverty and homelessness
Recommendation 73: Increase the earnings exemptions for those on income and disability assistance and end the claw back of unearned income.-
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Economic security
Extreme poverty and homelessness
Recommendation 74: Allow income assistance recipients to attend post-secondary institutions and retain full assistance benefits and expand the Single Parents Employment Initiative (SPEI) to include higher education.-
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Economic security
Working poverty and employment standards
Recommendation 75: Implement interventions to reduce and eliminate precarious work in B.C.-
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Economic security
Working poverty and employment standards
Recommendation 76: End wage discrimination against farm workers and implement the general minimum wage as a wage floor for all piece-rate farm workers, as recommended by the Fair Wages Commission in 2018.-
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Economic security
Working poverty and employment standards
Recommendation 77: All levels of governments should ensure their direct and contract employees are paid a living wage.-
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Economic Security: Working Poverty and Employment Standards
Recommendation 78: Remove barriers for workers exercising their constitutional right to join a union, including a return to signed union card certifications, and implement measures to prevent employers from interfering in union organizing drives.-
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Economic security
Working poverty and employment standards
Recommendation 79: End contract flipping that enables employers to keep wages low for tens of thousands of workers.-
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Economic security
Working poverty and employment standards
Recommendation 80: Provide 21 sick days a year for all workers regardless of their immigration status.-
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